Earth Science

Alibaba Resources is counting on a big reward, 2 million dollars, and crowd sourcing to find the graphite needle in the data haystack.
“We are reaching out to geologists, prospectors, surveyors, researchers and resource companies.” said Bob Komarechka, CEO of Alibaba, “We’re counting on someone seeing our reward and remembering a drill log or an EM anomaly from a property they might have been looking at a decade ago before graphite was very interesting. Or maybe a summer student looking through old core will have seen our offer and when she sees a run of graphite will tell her supervisor.”

If I had told you in 2010 that we were going to have 128 reported holes and intersect potentially economic silver grade at decent widths in all of them, you would have said I was dreaming. But that’s what has happened”—Fred Hewett, Northair

Federal bureaucrats warned Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government not to become “cheerleaders” for the oilpatch as it launched a sophisticated lobbying and marketing campaign — lightheartedly described as “God’s work” — to promote the industry abroad and challenge foreign climate change policies, newly released internal documents have revealed

Contamination of a major western Canadian river basin from oil sands operations is a “high-profile concern” for downstream communities and wildlife, says a newly-released “secret” presentation prepared last spring by Environment Canada that highlighted numerous warnings about the industry's growing footprint on land, air, water and the climate